Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the 2020 election. Visit here for the latest news on the candidates running for president. The race began with 25 Democrats and two Republicans, including President Trump, who is running for reelection. There are…
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News Georgia’s election-weary Jewish community is ready for another fight
The next high stakes election is in Georgia, and the Jewish community is ready for it. Local synagogues and political groups are planning efforts to get people who will turn 18 before the vote to register. The Republican Jewish Coalition has raised money and is sending staff over from Florida. The Anti-Defamation League is monitoring…
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News As Florida eludes Jewish Democrats, they see new potential in Arizona
When U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords was shot outside a Tucson-area grocery store in 2011, she represented a blue island in the largely red sea of Arizona. The attempted assassination of Giffords, who is Jewish and had spent several years in the state legislature before being elected to Congress in 2006, shocked the state’s Jewish community….
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The Schmooze Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff is our hot Jewish dad crush
Editor’s note: We’re republishing this story, first published in July, 2019, after Kamala Harris was named vice president-elect on Nov. 7, 2020 — and Doug Emhoff, her hot Jewish lawyer husband, was standing right next to her to celebrate. If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention: We’re living at the near-height of anti-Semitic incidents in…
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News ‘Biden’s rabbi’ says everyone must be patient, as the Children of Israel learned to do in the desert
Rabbi Michael Beals has an exceptionally soothing voice, which has come in handy this week. The man known as “Biden’s rabbi” has spent most of the week trying to keep the members of his synagogue, Cong. Beth Shalom, in Wilmington, Del., from tearing the hair out of their heads. Beals met Biden at a basement…
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Opinion Why millennial Jews like me aren’t ‘Jewish voters’
When I sat down to write a piece about the millennial Jewish reaction to the election results, I found myself surprisingly stymied. I work in Jewish media for goodness sake; I must have a reaction on the Jewish issues in this election. Which were what, again? It’s not that I’m unfazed by the election; like…
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Culture Ari Melber quotes Drake as we look away in horror
As with any historic election, many of us are now taking stock of where we are, or will be, when the final vote is counted. (Probably, like most of the country, we’ll be at home.) But long after Trump or Biden hits the magic number of 270, I will still be reeling from a less…
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Culture Paula White’s wild Trump sermon is begging for the Steve Reich treatment
Whatever you think of her views on religion, we can agree that yesterday, evangelical adviser to the president Paula White produced a most prodigious bop. At a prayer service for the reelection of President Trump, the man she won over with her teachings of “Prosperity Theology,” White delivered an impassioned sermon heavy on rhythmic repetition,…
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Community Despite everything, poll-watching in Trump country gives me hope
Much about this year’s election has been disappointing, even disheartening, with incivility and hatred dominating the discourse. But I can say that my experience standing outside a polling station in a very blue-collar corner of a bellwether district gives me some hope that neither our election system nor the social fabric of this country is…
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